$189.9M in expenses

Patient care: texas scottish rite hospital for children is one of the nation's leading pediatric centers for the treatment of orthopedic conditions, certain related arthritic and neurological disorders and learning disorders, such as dyslexia. Patients receive treatment regardless of the family's ability to pay. The orthopedics program includes outpatient clinic visits and inpatient stays for the diagnosis and treatment of such conditions as scoliosis, clubfoot, dislocated hip, leggperthes, limblength differences and limb deficiencies, hand differences and sports injuries. The neurology program provides care in specialized clinics for orthopedic patients who have related neurological disorders and neuromuscular diseases such as tuberous sclerosis. The pediatric developmental disabilities program includes outpatient clinic visits for the diagnosis and treatment of conditions such as spina bifida and cerebral palsy. All programs, including orthopedic, neurology and learning disorders, takes an interdisciplinary approach to providing the best possible family centered care.

$18.5M in expenses

Research: the hospital's dedicated research center, the sarah m. And charles e. Seaycenter for musculoskeletal research continues to discover new and innovative ways to benefit children's lives. Scottish rite for children is dedicated to promoting clinical, basic and applied research to advance the care of children with orthopedic conditions, related neurological disorders and specific learning differences.medical breakthroughs and new technologies developed through scottish rite for children's research efforts have dramatically impacted the lives of not only children treated herebut also throughout the world. Through the years, scottish rite researchers and physicians have generated 193 patents and made important discoveries that have helped children worldwide. These findings and innovations allow the medical community to form new hypotheses to explain what causes certain conditions while providing tools for future research. The major discoveries and research applications at scottish rite include: the first gene associated with idiopathic scoliosis; two more genetic markers of the condition; the TSRH silotm 5.5 spinal system; the true/lokexternal fixation system; the true/lok hex; truelok evo, truelok elevate. This past year, scottish rite staff, in collaboration with ut southwestern medical center, identified a gene associated with a rare neurodegenerative disorder and developed a gene therapy to treat this disorder through successful completion of pre-clinical trials.

$10.3M in expenses

Education: texas scottish rite hospital for children functions as a premier teaching institution, providing comprehensive education and training to orthopedic residents and postgraduate orthopedic fellows. In addition, the hospital contributes to the education of allied health professionals by providing clinical experience and didactic education for students as well as continuing education for health care professionals. The hospital is currently affiliated with 93 institutions, including colleges, universities and technical programs. For 50 years, in association with the university of texas southwestern medical center, the hospital has provided an extraordinary educational experience in the field of pediatric orthopedics to promising orthopedic surgeons. More than 200 physicians have benefited from the hospital's fellowship in pediatric orthopedics and scoliosis, with many going on to hold prestigious medical positions across the country and around the world. In addition, physicians from some of the major hand centers have trained at the hospital in the subspecialty of pediatric hand surgery. The hospital also participates in residency and fellowship training programs in neurology, pediatric rheumatology, orthopedics, radiology and developmental and behavioral pediatrics, plastic surgery, pediatric rehabilitation medicine, anesthesia, orthopedic sports medicine, urology, dentistry, pediatric neurology, pediatric neurosurgery, neurophysiology, pediatric headache medicine and pediatric emergency medicine. Scottish rite also has extensive affiliation programs for education of students in clinical areas, such as nursing externs, psychology, neuropsychology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, orthotics and prosthetics, training of pa and NP students, dietary/nutrition, dental hygiene, therapeutic recreatoin, medical laboratory, radiology science, and speech pathology students. Scottish rite also trains students in areas as diverse as social work, criminal justice, statistics, health information management and STEM education for middle school, high school and college males and females.